PEACE SYMPHONY – AN EVENING FOR YEMEN
Radiohjälpen, Berwaldhallen and Swedish Radio invite you to an evening for Yemen in order to raise awareness about the world’s largest ongoing humanitarian disaster. The evening opens with a seminar in which Minister for Foreign Affairs, Margot Wallström, and Michaela Friberg Storey from the Red Cross participate, among others. The seminar is followed by a concert with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir presenting the first performance of Johannes Jansson’s newly written work, Peace Symphony. The concert will be live streamed on berwaldhallen.se/play.
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In 2011, Yemeni journalist and peace activist Tawakkol Karman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent efforts to promote women’s safety and rights. At the time, she was the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and her beautiful speech inspired Johannes Jansson to write Peace Symphony for choir and orchestra. Karman’s boundless vision is the very essence of the piece and a crucial window to a new challenging, behind-the-scenes humanism that permeates our world today. Peace Symphony, which is now being performed for the first time is a work commissioned by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Together, we will push the horizons,
one after another,
towards a world of true human perfection.
Peace be upon you!
- The final words of Tawakkol Karman’s lecture at the award ceremony in 2011.
